HistoricPhotoProcessesForum

07/07/2023

HPPF Moderator Charles Berger’s PolyColor Photograph “Artist Gaze” was a Prize Winner at the recent Art Center Morro Bay Photography Exhibit (May 16 - June 26).

06/18/2020

Photo credit Charles Berger.

09/19/2019

Announcement: Color Carbon Heliochrome in “Brushstrokes, 2019” Exhibit

'In The Flow', a color carbon Heliochrome by HPPF Founding Moderator Charles Berger has been selected for “Brushstrokes, 2019” - a biennial exhibition of contemporary California paintings at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (September 6 -October 27 https://sloma.org/exhibition/brushstrokes-2019/).

'In the Flow' was created with the same light-sensitive gelatin emulsions used in the historic carbon photographic process. The carbon Heliochrome however, is a new and experimental single layer, multi-color technique whose random effects and surprising results are in direct opposition to both the predictable products of digital photography as well as the rigid discipline of the traditional carbon print.

The relationship between a traditional photographic process and painting make 'In The Flow’s' display within a fine art painting exhibition a truly unique experience. Stay tuned for more information as we will be discussing this process at a future HPPF meeting.

04/12/2019

Some example works for April 20, 2019 'Camera-Less: Carbon Heliochrome' HPPF meeting.

07/05/2018

The Historic Photo Processes Forum will be taking a July and August summer break and will next meet Saturday, September 15 at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History.

Until then, you might wish to view my exhibit of Color Carbon prints at purePleasure (across the street from the Museum at Abbott Square). Artist Reception will be this First Friday and I look forward to seeing many of you there. Here's the link:
https://firstfridaysantacruz.com/event/pure-pleasure-charles-berger/

Have a great summer. Make lots of wonderful photographs.

Charles

(posted from HPPF admin on behalf of Charles)

PANTHEON, Charles Berger’s new exhibit of photographs, was inspired by by the 1920’s British photographer Mme Yevonde, who dressed her society friends as Greek and Roman goddesses in celebration of the “Divine Feminine”.   By expanding the scope of portraits beyond gender and Euro culture, ...

05/19/2017

The Saturday, May 20th meeting of the Historic Photo Processes Forum at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (11:30a-1:00p) will explore the “delightful uncertainty” of working with vintage photographic techniques. Whether it is the accidental double exposure of a pinhole camera or the unpredictable colors of a lumen print, these surprises and quirks can provide image revelations beyond the limited predictability of the digital toolbox.

Forum participants are encouraged to bring examples of unforeseen photographic image-making that proved essential to the creation of unique works of art.

“ … there is a delightful uncertainty about Bromoil…and this partly explains the fascination of the process to serious workers."

- H.W.Rennie, British Journal of Photography, February, 1920